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FLORIDA PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY OFFICERS AND BOARD

President: Joyce Bode, 4906 Colonnades Circle E , Lakeland, FL 338ll

President-Elect: Roger Portell, Florida Museum of Natural History Box 117800, Gainesville, FL 32611 [email protected]

Past President: Tom Ahern, 629 Gail Ave., Temple Terrace, FL 33617

Vice President: David Thul man, 1906 A tap ha Nene, Tallahassee, FL 32301

Secretary: Marcia Wright, 1550 Mizell Avenue, Winder Park, FL 32789

Treasurer: George Hecht, Florida Museum of Natural History Box 11 7800, Gainesville, FL 3 I 6 LI

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Bernie Peterson, Cocoa, 2003 Sue Hutchens, Old Town, 2003

Gordon Hubbell , Gainesville, 2003

Fran k Rupert, Tallahassee, 2003

Bruce MacFadden, Gainesville, 2003

James Toomey, Bradenton, 2003

Steven Hutchens, Old Town, 2003 Barbara Toomey, Gainesville, 2003

COMMITTEES AND APPOINTMENTS

Book Committee: Nominations: Finance: Membership: By-Laws: Konorary Members

and Awards: Historical: Board of Editors: Resident Agent:

R. Hulbe1t J. Toomey G. Hecht, J. Rupert, R. Portell T.Akin, G. Hecht , N. Akin R. Mill.er, D. Thu1man, B. MacFadden

R. Portell , B. Fite, S. Hutchens B.Ahern R. Portell , R. Hulbert, F. Rupert R. Portell

HONORARY MEMBERS

Anita Brown David Webb Gary Morgan Clifford Jeremiah Gordon Hubbell

INFORMATION, MEMBERSHIP, AND PUBLICATIONS

Address: Secretary, Florida Paleontological Society, Inc. Florida Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 117800 University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 -7800 email: [email protected]

petites had been whetted the night before, and we were

already counting the Pleistocene invertebrates, verte-

brates, and calcite crystals that would be loaded into our

buckets and bags that morning. We arose before dawn

and gathered our rain gear, boots , hand tools, and buck-

ets. We were ready for the weather. A little rain, snow,

or sleet never stops a paleontologist from his/her quest. It

was all for naught as the gatekeeper thought only fools

would want to be out in weather like this. Undaunted,

some of the group milled about while others were search-

ing the roadside ditches for specimens, Roger Portell

had a bag of fossilized ghost crabs. This would prove to

be the only fossil material we would see for the day.

The Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute is a

fascinating facility with a fabulous tour. There are so many

areas of expertise in this research complex. We were

introduced to the field of Aquaculture, the research on

culture of fish, mollusks , crustaceans, and plants. We

heard about the Biomedical research with the emphasis

on drug discovery from marine organisms. We learned

of the rescue of a Dolphin named Lazarus, because he

was dead and brought back to life and is now living in the

owner's swimming pool. The funds for the marine mam-

mal research conservation programs are provided by the

State of Florida specialty license plates. We were shown

the engineering department, where research, design and

fabrication of tools, instruments and vehicles for the

Johnson Sea-Link deep-sea submersible and other re-

mote controlled deep-sea vessels is conducted. To finish

our tour, we stopped at the gift shop before making our

way to the conference center for a buffet dinner.

After dinner, George Hecht presented us with a

slide show, His talk was on micropaleontology for be-

ginners and covered many things seen with the micro-

scope including sediment, shell fragments, as well as the

microfossils Foraminifera and Ostracoda. He was able

to provide us with an idea of just how tiny (microscopic)

the specimens he works on are, and revealed the beauty

and complexity of the microscopic world.

Then Roger and our own "Vanna White", also

known as Marcia Wright conducted an auction with all

proceeds collected going to the scholarship fund. Those

of you who were not able to come missed out on a fun

weekend!

Robyn Miller

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Club News

The FPS ended 2002 in the black and 2003

looks to be an exciting year with meetings, more pub-

lications, a more frequent newsletter, and with this

being our 2S111 anniversary, yet another reason to cel-

ebrate Florida paleontology. I am pleased to report

that the subtle note in the Mastodon paper has brought

more than half of the membership up to date on dues.

Many have opted to pay through 2004, which I hope

is a reflection of the confidence in FPS to continue to

provide quality services and publications. As an-

nounced at the Fall Meeting there are some exciting

events to go along with this anniversary year. Please

bring your membership dues up to date! This is a bad

year to lose your membership in the FPS. In the works

is a commemorative t-shirt featuring the FPS logo and

our favorite 6-horned antelope Hexameryx simpsoni.

Details will follow about pricing and ordering instruc-

tions.

Some notes of interest for publications, the now

discontinued Papers in Florida Paleontology series is

being discounted and sold as a complete package or as

individual issues. The papers are as follows:

Volume 1 Morgan and Ridgway, 1987. Late

Pliocene (late Blancan) vertebrates

from the St. Petersburg Times site,

Pinellas County, Florida, with a brief

review of Florida Blancan faunas.

Volume 2 Hulbert and Morgan, 1989. Stratigra-

phy, paleoecology, and vertebrate fauna

of the Leisey Shell Pit Local Fauna,

early Pleistocene (lrvingtonian) of

southwestern Florida.

Volume 3-5 in a single issue 1991

Volume 3 Portell and Schindler. Menippe

mercenaria (Decapoda: Xanthidae)

from the Pleistocene of Florida.

Volume 4 Nicol. Tethyan mollusks of the

middle and late Eocene of Florida.

Volume 5 Nicol. Location of continents and

oceans and distribution of living oysters

(Gryphaeidae and Ostreidae)

Volume 6

Volume 7

Volume 8

Hulbert, 1992. A checklist of the fossil

vertebrates of Florida.

Morgan and Portell, 1996. The Tucker

Borrow Pit: Paleontology and stratigra-

phy of a Pho-Pleistocene fossil site in

Brevard County, Florida.

Manchester, 1996. Petrified woods in

Florida.

Originally sold at $4.00 per issue the remaining

copies will sell for $1.00 each or $5 .00 for the complete

set plus postage. Hurry now while the selection is good.

Don't send cash, you '11 be invoiced for the final amount.

A further sales note is a change in pricing for

Butvar-76. Previously Butvar-76 had been sold for

$7.50 including shipping. Postage has increased over

the years to the point that we lose money on the trans-

action. The new price is $6.00 per pound with shipping

and handling extra. Good news for our walk-in cus-

tomers, bad news for everyone else.

Notes on Florida's Six-Horned Antelope S. David Webb, Honorary Member and Founding

President, FPS

Now that we have entered our 25 th anniversary

year, members of the Florida Paleontological Society

(FPS) may want to take a few extra minutes to ponder

our mascot/symbol, the Florida six-horned antelope.

Hexameryx simpsoni is a very showy Florida

endemic fossil species. For those reasons it was selected

in 1978 as the symbol of the newly chartered FPS. This

genus and species is known only from the upper Bone

Valley Formation, latest Miocene. More technically it

is a rare member of the Palmetto Fauna representing

the late Hemphillian land mammal age about five mil-

lion years ago. Barbara Webb drew the restored head ,

displayed laterally over an outline of the state of Florida.

The likeness to a modern Antilocapra americana, our living pronghorn of western North America, is

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intentional. Howard Converse sculpted a specimen of a head

with six restored horns. It became the symbol of the FPS president and is passed on from officer

to officer.

A closely related extinct genus, H exobelomeryx

fricki, comes from the Yepomera Fauna in Chihuahua,

Mexico, a fauna with age and composition much like

those of the Palmetto Fauna. Some paleontologists have

argued that this genus should be

synonymized withHexameryx. In their recent review, however, Janis

and Manning (1998) found that

subtle differences in the horncores

probably warrant generic separa-

tion. If the six-homed genera are ever synonymized, the Florida

beast will still be a rare endemic

species.

That diameter is about half of the equivalent diam-

eter in an average adult female from the Bone Valley sample. This juvenile horncore, together with the en-

tire sample of female H exameryx simpsoni

homcores, shows far more consistent adherence to

a standard pattern than one finds in modern female

Antilocapra americana (O'Gara, 1990). That sug-

gests that selection for substantial female horns may

have been more important in

the life history of H exameryx

than in that of Antilocapra.

Florida's six-horned ante-

lope continues to be rare. Indeed

as mining in the Bone Valley Dis-

trict moved southward off of the

ridges in the past decade, almost

no specimens seem to have turned

up. A score of horncores are cata-

logued in the vertebrate paleon-

tology collections at the Florida

Museum of Natural History.

These show that there are two dis-The FPS mascot: Hexamervx simpsoni

The Bone Valley Mining

District is remarkable for produc-

ing two antilocaprids that evi-

dently were contemporaneous.

The other species,

Subantilocapra garciae, is

somewhat smaller than

Hexameryx simpsoni and even

more rare. Just two horncores, a

few teeth and some postcranial

elements can be assigned to this

smaller species. Because it is

probably an approximate ances-

tor ( or sister genus) to the living

pronghorn, it would be extremely

desireable to recover more ma-

terial of this very rare species.

References Cited: tinct sizes and that the larger forms

have the posterior horn set at a lower angle above the

brain case. Webb ( 1973) considered the larger forms ( with

basal widths greater than 30 millimeters) to be males,

and the smaller horns to be those of females. This led

him to synonymize the supposedly separate species, H. elmorei with H. simpsoni. (It would have been very difficult for Hexameryx to survive if the males and fe-

males did not interbreed.)

A very interesting undescribed specimen of H. simpsoni is UF 52424, a juvenile frontlet from the left

side with a complete posterior horncore, a nearly com-

plete middle, and a broken base of the anterior homcore.

The posterior prong is only 11 mm in diameter at the

base but has the proportions of an adult female homcore.

Janis, C. M. and E. Manning.

1998. Antilocapridae, pp. 491- 507. In Evolution of

Tertiary Mammals of North America, Vol. 1: Terrestrialk

Carnivores, Ungulates and Ungulatelike Mammals. C.

M. Janis, K. M. Scott and L. J. Jacobs (eds .), Cam-

bridge University Press, 691 pp.

O'Gara, B. W. 1990. The Pronghorn (Antilocapra

americana), pp. 231-264. In Horns, Pronghorns, and

Antlers. GA. and A. B. Bubenik (eds.), Springer-Verlag,

New York.

Webb, S. D. 1973. Pliocene Pronghorns of Florida.

Journal of Mammalogy, 54: 203-221.

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Announcing the Florida Paleontological Society's

Prospectus and General Overview

Gary S. Morgan Student Research

Award 8th ANNUAL COMPETITION

The Florida Paleontological Society (FPS) is pleased to announce the 8th annual competition for its student research award. The purpose of this award is to promote a better understanding of Florida paleontology through new research discoveries. Eligible fields of relevance within paleontology include invertebrates, vertebrates, mi-crofossils, and plants. This award is open to any student, undergraduate or graduate, in good standing at any Florida university or college.

For thi s 8th competition, the FPS has allocated an award of up to $500. The grant 's purpose is for expen-ditures such as (but not restricted to) field work, museum research travel, laboratory analyses, research materials, etc. It is not intended to fund travel to scientific meetings, indirect ( overhead) costs, salaries, or wages. Deadline for receipt of proposals is 1 December 2003.

Applications must be postmarked on or before the deadline and be sent to the Awards Chairman at the address listed below. Applications will be reviewed by committee and judged based on the following criteria: (1) merit of proposed research, (2) feasibility of project, (3) clarity of expression, and ( 4) strength of recommendation letter from faculty sponsor. The screening/award committee shall consist of both professional and avocational paleontologists. The Awardee will be notified after 15 December 2003 and the FPS Treasurer will send a check for the requested amount (up to $500) to the recipient.

It is expected that, during or after completion of the research, the recipient(s) will present results of their discoveries in the form of (1) a short article of a non-technical nature to be published in the FPS Newsletter and/or (2) a talk presented at an FPS meeting. In the event of the latter, the student's travel expenses to the meeting shall be paid by the FPS (this expense should not be included in the submitted proposal). Application Process and Requirements: The application is intended to be short - thus, items 1-4 (combined) are limited to two pages (minimum 10 point type, standard 1" margins). The application must include:

1. Title of research project 2. Name, address, and phone number (or email address) of applicant 3. Current college status (where enrolled, major, degree program, anticipated graduation date). 4. Project description written in general, i.e., to the extent possible, non-technical, terms to include a de-

scription of what he/she plans to study, why it is interesting or important, how and when it will be done, and a budget of proposed expenditures.

5. Appended to the proposal, a letter from a faculty sponsor who will vouch for the qualifications of the applicant (as well as the importance of the project) and a short statement that the faculty member will supervise the research.

Applications should be postmarked by 1 December 2003 and sent to: Roger Portell, Awards Chairman Florida Paleontological Society Florida Museum of Natural History University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611-2035

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David and Lee Ann Cale receive the Florida

Museum of Natural History's Howard Converse Award

The 2003 Howard Converse Award was presented

to David and Lee Ann Cale at a luncheon held during the

FPS Spring Meeting, on May 10th and 11 th in Gainesville.

Roger Portell spoke of their contributions and presented them

with a recognition plaque that was adorned with a bronzini

replica of a beautiful Pliocene scallop (Nodipecten). David

and Lee Ann are both active members of the Paleontologi-

cal Society of Lee County (PSOLC) and have played a ma-

jor role in promoting Florida paleontology. Both of the Cales

have held the office of PSOLC president and served on the

society's board of directors. David is currently the PSOLC

president and Lee Ann is editor of the society's newsletter.

Along with these activities they have also developed several

PSOLC sponsored outreach programs for middle and el-

ementary age school children. The Cales spearheaded the

excavation of the Tri-Bitton locality in Hendry County by

PSOLC members along with Mason Meers (University of

Tampa) and Richard Hulbert (FLMNH). The middle Pleis-

tocene Tri-Britton site represents a time interval that is rela-

tively poorly known in Florida. The Cales also participated

in FLMNH fossil "digs", at Tyner Farm and they made im-

portant donations to the museum's collections. The most

recent donation included several new Pliocene echinoids.

David and Lee Ann, along with daughter Tabitha ( who now

works in the Invertebrate Paleontology Division, FLMNH)

and son Billy, continue to show their support and dedication

to the field of paleontology though their involvement with

the PSLOC and FLMNH and plan to continue to do so well

in to the future.

The Haward Converse Award, presented nearly ev-

ery year since 1988 by the FLMNH, recognizes outstand-

ing contributions to Florida paleontology by the non-pro-

fessional . Individuals are nominated for the award by

FLMNH staff from the Invertebrate Paleontology, Verte-

brate Paleontology, andPaleobotany divisions. Three staff

members then select the recipient from the pool of

nominees.

News from the Florida Museum of

Natural History (FLMNH)

Invertebrate Paleontology Division (IP) .....

Despite his administrative duties as Director of

the FLMNH, Douglas Jones stayed active with several

paleontological projects in 2002-03. Working with

Bruce MacFadden and Penny Higgins (both FLMNH)

and Brad Clementz from California, the team used stable

oxygen and carbon isotopes from the teeth of fossil and

modem sirenians from Florida to reconstruct ancient di-

ets and paleoecology of these creatures. Their results

were presented at the annual meeting of the Society of

Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) and will be published in

a forthcoming paper in the journal Paleobiology.

Typically, Doug also was involved with several

molluscan projects. K.P. Teusch, Doug, and Warren

Allmon (Paleontological Research Institution) published

a paper in the journal Palaios in 2002 where they linked

morphological change in Pleistocene-Recent turritellids

from Chile with upwelling intensity. Doug also teamed-

up with former IP student Linda lvany (now Assistant

Professor at Syracuse University) and Bruce Wilkinson

at Michigan to publish another paper in Palaios (2003)

which explored the use of stable isotope data to resolve

rate and duration of growth throughout ontogeny, citing

the Atlantic surf clam as a prime example. At present

Doug is working with Irv Quitmyer (FLMNH) to look

at season of collection of archaeological coquina clams

from Florida.

Finally, Doug and Roger Portell are involved

with completion of the new Hall of Florida Fossils: Evo-

lution of Life and Land. The fossil hall, located at

FLMNH's Powell Hall (Exhibits and Education Center),

is expected to open May 22, 2004.

Roger and his staff continue to curate the state's

IP collection that has grown to nearly 3.5 million speci-

mens! In addition, Roger conducted considerable field-

work in Florida and the Caribbean (Jamaica and the Neth-

erlands Antilles). With National Geographic funding,

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Roger and colleagues Stephen Donovan (Nationaal

Natuurhistorisch _Museum , Holland), and Thomas

Stemann (University of the West Indies, Jamaica) vis-

ited the north coast of Jamaica during February and

March, 2003 and collected in the Upper Pliocene

Hopegate Formation. The Hopegate is an indurated do-

lomitized unit with an unreported diverse coral and mol-

lusk fauna. One additional year of fieldwork (March,

2004) is scheduled before the team is ready to report

their results.

Eocene Ocala Limestone of Florida" that was published

in the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washing-

ton. This paper describes a very rare crab found only

from one quarry in the Newberry area. Another paper,

co-authored with Gary Schmelz (Naples), was "A new

species of Metula (Gastropoda: Colubrariidae) from the

Lower Miocene Chipola Formation of Florida". That

paper was published in The Nautilus. Most recently,

Roger, Richard Turner (Florida Institute of Technol-

ogy), and John Beerensson

(Merritt Island) published an ar-

ticle "Occurrence of the Atlan-

tic Ghost Crab Ocypode

quadrata from the Upper Pleis-

tocene to Holocene Anastasia

Formation of Florida". This pa-

per was published in the Journal

of Crustacean Biology and de-

scribed the fossilization process

of common, whole-bodied, crabs

found on Brevard County

beaches.

During June and July,

Roger, Stephen Donovan, and

David Harper (University of

Copenhagen) visited the Nether-

lands Antilles (Curacao and

Bonaire) and collected inverte-

brate fossils from the Upper

Eocene Montagne Formation

and Pliocene Se roe Domi Forma-

tion. The Seroe Domi Forma-

tion contains important brachio-

pod, arthropod and echinoid as-

sociations in an ecosystem that

marked the southern margin of Stephen Donovan collecting fossil echi-

the Late Cenozoic Caribbean ba-

sin. The team will present their

results of this project at the

Palaeontological Association

meeting later this year.

noids and brachiopods while sitting on an

George Hecht is con-

tinuing to curate ostracodes in

the Richard A. Edwards micro-

fossil collection (formerly exposure of the Seroe Domi Formation

along the southern coast of Curacao, Neth-

erlands Antilles. housed at the Florida Geologi-

cal Survey). The collection rep-

resents 40 years of collecting and

Recently, Roger co-authored several articles on

Florida fossils. An article with graduate student Greg

Herbert (University of California, Davis) entitled "A new

species of Attiliosa (Muricidae: Neogastropoda) from

the Upper Eocene/Lower Oligocene Suwannee Lime-

stone of Florida" was published in The Veliger and de-

scribes the oldest known species of that genus. Addi-

tionally, Roger co-authored a paper with Joe Collins

(London) entitled "A new species of Montezumella

(Crustacea: Decapoda: Cheiragonidae) from the Upper

is estimated to contain over 10,000 specimens (1,000 to

3,000 lots). George also helps curate the IP Teaching

Collection (mostly Paleozoic and Mesozoic invertebrates)

that is used not only in FLMNH programs and exhibits,

but also by the UF Geology and Zoology departments.

Since the last IP news report, former students

Craig Oyen and Jeff Agnew have graduated! Craig

received his Ph.D. in Geology during May, 2001 after

completion of his dissertation entitled "Biostratigraphy

and diversity patterns of Cenozoic echinoderms from

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Florida". He is currently on the faculty in the Depart-

ment of Geography and Earth Science at Shippensburg

University (PA). Jeff Agnew finished in August, 2001

with his Masters Degree in Geology. His thesis was

titled "Taxonomy, taphonomy, and paleoecology of the

Plio-Pleistocene shell beds at 101 Ranch Pit, Okeechobee

County, Florida". Currently, Jeff is pursuing a Ph.D. at

Louisiana State University.

Joan Herrera received her

Ph.D. in Zoology from the University

of Florida in August, 1998. Currently,

she is an adjunct assistant professor in

Biological Sciences and teaches intro-

ductory courses for majors and non-

majors here at UF. Joan regularly vol-

unteers in the IP co11ection and is now

conducting research on a new species

of fossil echinoid collected from the

Anastasia Formation. She hopes to ex-

pand her current research into a com-

prehensive analysis of fossil Arbacia

from the SE USA. Joan has taken over

the production of the FPS newsletter be-

ginning with this issue!

A few significant individual fossil donations

made to IP were a Florida Pleistocene sea star given

by Sam Upchurch (Land O'Lakes, FL), a new ge-

nus of Pliocene crab from Virginia donated by Janine

Jacobs (Baltimore, MD), and several tests of a new

species of Arbacia gifted by Thomas Scott and

Harley Means (Florida Geological Survey). Other

gifts included a much-appreciated microwave oven

During 2002-2003 individual

fossils and fossil collections were do-

nated to IP on a regular basis. The two

Roger Portell searching for fossils in the Hopegate Formation in Jamaica ..

donated by Michael and Heidi

Toomey, 23 Lane specimen cabinets

with drawers donated by Barbara

and Reed Toomey, and an easy-to-

carry gasoline powered water-pump

for site excavation given by James

and Lori Toomey. Financial support

during 2002-2003 for numerous col-

lection and research initiatives in IP

and for IP student support is also

gratefu11y acknowledged. Thanks go

to: the American Association of Pe-

troleum Geologists (LSU Student

Chapter), Roland and Jan Banks,

John Beerensson , Linda Ann

Clemens, Lois and Blackwell

Dunnam, Hartman & Associates,

Inc., Joan Herrera, the late Muriel

Hunter, Jack and Evelyn Martin,

Naples Shell Club, Craig Oyen, The most noteworthy collections came from

Richard Petit (North Myrtle Beach, SC) and Lois and

Blackwell Dunnam (Sanibel, FL). Richard's donation

consisted of nearly 3,000 Plio-Pleistocene mollusks from

Florida and North Carolina and included two paratypes

of Pterynotus repetiti, a species named for him by Emily

Vokes in 1970. The Dunnam's donations contained

nearly 24,000 specimens of Florida Plio-Pleistocene mol-

lusks and Eocene mollusks of France. Both gifts are

scientifically valuable and most specimens were accom-

panied by high-quality data, including locality, collector

name, and date collected.

Sanibel-Captiva Shell Club, Southwest Florida

Fossil Club, Julia Thaler, Barbara and Reed Toomey,

and James and Lori Toomey.

Roger Portell

Invertebrate Paleontology

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University of Florida

Gainesville, FL 32611-7800

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Dr. Webb Retires

Dr. S. David Webb, Distinguished Research Curator Emeritus of Vertebrate Paleontology, retired

from the FLMNH on July 1, 2003 after being a faculty

curator since 1964. Dave is an internationally recog-

nized paleontologist specializing in the evolution of

Cenozoic mammals from the Americas. During his

four-decade tenure at UF, Dave has led the develop-

ment of the vertebrate paleontology program from a

small regional collection to more than 300,000 speci-

mens that now ranks in the top 5 VP collections na-

tionally. Dave has been instrumental in public museum

outreach as a popular lecturer and founder of the Florida

Paleontological Society. He is the author of more than

200 articles and monographs, has been the mentor to

more than 50 graduate students, and is an enthusiastic

and popular teacher. Dave has received many honors

and distinctions during his career, including President

of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Guggenheim

Fellowship in Germany, Visiting Professorship at Yale,

and Distinguished Visiting Curatorship at the Field Mu-

seum in Chicago.

In Dave's honor, a celebration (WebbFete) was

held May 10, 2003 at FLMNH's Powell Hall. Two

sessions of talks by distinguished speakers, a tour of

the soon-to-open fossil hall, and a catered banquet with

guest speaker Clayton Ray (retired curator of the Na-

tional Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Insti-

tution) made this event most memorable.

Twelfth Annual Fossil, Mineral, and Gem Show

presented by: Florida Fossil Hunters

Saturday, November 8, 2003 - 9:00am - 5:00pm Sunday, November 9, 2003 - 10:00am -4:00pm

Fossils and Artifacts, Hourly Silent Auctions, Kids can dig for their own fossils!

$3.00 Adults/ $1.00 Children

Central Florida Fairgrounds 4603 West colonial Drive (Hwy. 50)

Orlando, Florida 32808-8158

From Tampa (I-4) - Take I-4 all the way into Orlando and then take the Colonial Drive (Hwy 50) exit and go westbound. The fair grounds will be on the right side just past Mercy Drive.

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Contact: Terry Angell 407-977-5803 or Bobbi Angell 407-277-8978 Email to: [email protected]

A standing ovation for Dr. S. David Webb, Distinguished Research Curator, Florida Museum of Natural History at WebbF ete, a celebration of his thirty-nine year career at the University of Florida.

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FLORIDA PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY, INC.

As stated in the Articles oflncorporation, "'.r,he purposes of this Corporation shall be to advance the science of Paleontology, es-pecially in Florida, to disseminate knowledge of this subject and to facilitate cooperations of all persons concerned with the his-tory, stratigraphy, evolution, ecology, anatomy, and taxonomy of Florida's past fauna and flora. The Corporation shall also be concerned with the collection and preservation of Florida fos-sils." (Article III, Section 1).

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ARTICLE IX

Section 1. Members of the Florida Paleontological Society, Inc. , are expected to respect all private and public properties.

Section 2. No member shall collect without appropriate per-mission on priv,ate or public properties.

Section 3. Members should make a sincere effort to keep them-selves informed of laws, regulations, and rules on collecting on private or public properties.

Section 4. Members shall not use firearms, blasting equipment or dredging apparatuses without appropriate licenses and per-mits.

Section 5. Members shall dispose of litter properly.

Section 6. Members shall report to proper state offices any seem-ingly important paleontological and archaeological sites.

Section 7. Members shirll respect and cooperate with field trip leaders or designated authorities in all collecting areas.

Section 8. Members shall appreciate and protect our heritage of natural resources.

Section 9. Members shall conduct themselves in a manner that best represents the Florida Paleontological Society, Inc.

Recent Publications of the Florida Geological Survey

Geologic Map of the State of Florida, by Tom Scott

and others, 1 :750,000 scale, color.

The new state geologic map, represents over

36 years of new geological data collection. The map

illustrates the areal extent of the surface and near sur-

face geologic units, which are color-keyed to the leg-

end. Cross-sections and a generalized stratigraphic col-

umn are included on the map. Open File Report 80,

which describes each lithostratigraphic unit, is also in-

cluded with the map. The map and accompanying text

may be ordered from the FGS library for $10. Contact

Carol Armstrong @ 850-488-9380. You may also

download the map from our web site:

www.dep .state. fl. us/geology /gisda tarn a ps/ index.htm.

Open File Report 85 First Magnitude Springs of Florida, by Thomas M. Scott, Guy H. Means, Ryan C. Means, and Rebecca

Meegan, 2002, 138p. Color, with maps and photos.

Seventeen springs, eight spring groups/systems,

seven river rises, and one karst window ( 49 vents to-

tal) were sampled from 25 September 2001 through

15 November 2001. The physical characteristics, wa-

ter chemistry, and bacteriology of Florida's first order mag-

nitude springs are discussed and described in this report.

Call 850-488-9380 for ordering information.

ANNUAL DUES for the FPS are $5.00 for Associate Membership (persons under age 18) and $15.00 for Full Membership (persons over age 18) and Institutional Subscriptions. Couples may join for $20.00, and Family Memberships (3 or more persons) are available for $25.00. Persons interested in. FPS membership need only send their names, addresses, and appropriate dues to the Secretary, Florida Paleontological Society, Inc., at the ad-dress on page 2. Please make checks payable to the FPS. Members receive the FPS newsletter, Florida Fossil Invertebrates, Fossil Species of Florida, and other random publications entitled to members.

NEWSLETTER POLICY: All worthy news items, art work, and photographs related to paleontology and various clubs in Florida are welcome. The editors reserve the right not to publish submissions and to edit those which are published. Please address submissions to the Editors, Florida Paleontological Soceity, Inc. Newsletter, at the address inside the front cover.

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